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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Gibson, Carrie, 1976- author.     Subjects     Caribbean Area -- History.     Caribbean Area -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gibson, Carrie, 1976- author.       by title:      Empire's crossroads ...         MARC Display

Empire's crossroads [electronic resource] : a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day / Carrie Gibson. by Gibson, Carrie, 1976- author. New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2014. Subjects Caribbean Area -- History.   Caribbean Area -- Social conditions. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5CBE4D88-A90E-4AF8-A3BA-ACE112D99CFF This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/empires-crossroads?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{5CBE4D88-A90E-4AF8-A3BA-ACE112D99CFF}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780802192356 (electronic bk.) 0802192351 (electronic bk.) 1322486654 (electronic bk.) 9781322486659 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xxviii, 447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. Contents:  A passage to the Indies -- Stepping stones to the New World -- Pirates and Protestants -- Sugar -- The rise of slavery -- A world at war -- Haiti, or, The beginning of the end -- Cuba and the contradictions of freedom -- Banana wars and global battles -- The road to independence -- The Cold War in the tropics -- Island life -- Import/export -- Invented paradise -- Timeline : key events in the Caribbean -- Gazetteer : The Caribbean (and surroundings). Requests:  0 Summary:  Traces the story of the coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba, exploring its history from the arrival of Columbus through colonialism to the present, offering a panoramic view of this complex region. In October 1492, an Italian-born, Spanish-funded navigator discovered a new world, thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson, unfolds the story of the Caribbean, from Columbus's first landing on the island he named San Salvador to today's islands-- largely independent, but often still in thrall to Europe and America's insatiable desire for tropical luxuries. From the early years of settlement to the age of sugar and slavery, during which vast riches were generated for Europeans through the enforced labour of millions of enslaved Africans, to the great slave rebellions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the long, slow progress towards independence in the modern era, Gibson offers a vivid, panoramic view of this complex and contradictory region. From Cuba to Haiti, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters, but of fortune-seekers, tourists, scientists and pirates. It is not only a story of imperial expansion-- European and American-- but also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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